Fender Road Worn '50s Telecaster

The word I haer is that this guitar is made in the US, then assembled and painted/reliced in Mexico.

Ash Body, Maple neck, synthetic bone nut.
It's a Tele there are'nt many features.

It boggles the mind....
I sat in a high end music store playing all of their Tele's.
From 52' American vintage to 4,000 dollar custom shop's (They even had a 10,000 dollars Jeff Beck relic!)
They all sounded great, but this ugly guitar spanked them all. I could not believe it. I even went back and played the others again, but the tone of this Road worn series tele is simply amazing.
Even the guitar tech for the store said it was one of the best tele's he's ever heard.
I use a Komet 50 watt Concorde head into a Vintage Marshal 4x12.

Ok, here's where people will be put-off by these guitars.
I must say this has to be THE ugliest guitar I've ever owned.
The relic work on this thing is pretty harsh..
But the action ect.. it was almost unplayable in the store.
The neck had an over-bow, the intonation was awefull, and it would not stay in tune. I gave it to the guitar tech and 20 mintues later it played as well as the exspensive Tele's and sounded even more incredible.

Not shure yet I have not had it long. But it seems pretty solid.

I am a professional musician, and have been playing for almost 30 years. My main guitars are a Custom Shop Strat, and a PRS.
I went shopping for a Telecaster, to find the mother of Tele tones, and money was no object. Yet this 950.00 mexican Tele came out the winner for me, and I have a couple Thousand dollars left over.

It's a basic true Tele...what more features do you want!

This guitar has plenty of acoustic spank when unplugged and sounds even better plugged in.
The bridge pick up is great although the neck pick up is slightly muddy.

The neck has a really nice worn in feel as expected and is grteat for digging in hard.

I had to give the Truss Rod a good turn as it was a little Robin Hood for my taste! The actual fit of the neck to the body is as good as any Custom shop and is excellently made in my opinion.
The nut is a little highly cut but agian this is my taste.

All looks pretty good to me!

I own a US custom shop Telecaster and a Vintage Hot Rod Tele.

I think the reviewer who gave this 1 is just annoyed that he spent three times the money on a US relic before these excellent guitars were produced because they are really good guitars!

My only critisism is I would have prefered a 9.5" radius neck but thts just my taste.

50's relic strat

What year was it made? 2009

Where was is made? (Japan, Mexico, USA, etc...) Mexico

Excellent. Plays alot like my vintage 57 strat.

Fender's new maple-fretboard Road Worn '50s Tele delivers that aged look and feel???built to look, sound and feel like it has survived half a century, designed with 1950s specs, including a nitrocellulose-lacquer finish, and supercharged with Tex-Mex??? pickups and 6105 frets.

Ash body, maple neck, lightweight (7.lbs), tex-mex pickups.

I really like the tone. It is a diverse sound and tone from my John Mayer strat and Gibson Les Paul. I especially like the bridge in distortion--wonderful bite and powerchords. Although all positions sound good clean. I like to just turn out the lights and feel and hear the clear resonant tone. This is a lighter ash body and is very resonant/acoustically loud. The guitar has more character and responsive to pick attack than I think my JM--probably because of the ash. I am OCD on tone, and not shy to say this tele sounds great to me. I have played 35 years.,

Neck is spot on--size, action, setting. It's hard to put down. It is so fun to play. It's kind of given me a new approach to playing. With the road worn concept, I feel at peace and innovative whenever I pick it up--I just turn out the lights and soak in the tone.

Fender has done me well for 35 years, although I buy and sell--so I never had anything for a great period of time. hey, this axe has already been axed, beat up, aged, I think it will last.

Customer Support: Effective at answering questions. Not as effective in taking care of warranty work--like a few guitars and my
HR deluxe when the reverb went out after 8 mos. They do take care of the guitars, but the luthier always says fender doesn't allow enough for him to file frets..etc.. as they should

35 years of playing--20 or so strats, an original 65 and 73 strat, a 40 year anniversary, a few higher end strats--EJ, JM, several Les Pauls, Hamer Studios, PRS McCarty and (2) hollowbodys w/piezo.

I would replace the guitar. The case is pathetically cheap for a $950 guitar--but, I bought it for the tone, the vibe, the look, the creativity, and the fun.